SF 1269

1st Engrossment - 82nd Legislature (2001 - 2002) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to veterans; providing for placement in the 
  1.3             Capitol of a plaque commemorating the soldiers who 
  1.4             participated in the Bataan Death March.  
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [PLAQUE; BATAAN DEATH MARCH.] 
  1.7      Subject to approval by the Capitol Area Architectural and 
  1.8   Planning Board, a plaque may be placed in the Capitol rotunda or 
  1.9   some other appropriate place in the Capitol area to honor the 
  1.10  soldiers of the 194th Light Tank Battalion and other persons 
  1.11  whose units, under General King's surrender orders of April 9, 
  1.12  1942, were submitted to Japanese control and forced to march up 
  1.13  to ten days with no food or water in what has become known as 
  1.14  the Bataan Death March.  The commissioner of veterans affairs 
  1.15  shall ensure placement of the plaque and may accept 
  1.16  contributions from nonstate sources to pay for the plaque and 
  1.17  its placement.